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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAfter three \u201cJurassic Park\u201d movies and three \u201cJurassic World\u201d movies, it seems the time has come to kickstart the \u201cJurassic\u201d franchise again with \u201cJurassic World: Rebirth.\u201d I\u2019ll give the franchise credit for recognizing that there was no need to continue with the Chris Pratt or Bryce Dallas Howard characters from the last three movies, who were widely seen as uninteresting. Even the more popular \u201cclassic\u201d characters played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum are probably best taking this movie off after fans got sufficiently caught up with them in 2022\u2019s \u201cJurassic World: Dominion.\u201d Good on this movie for coming up with a new set of heroes. I can\u2019t say I always cared for the story, action, or generally the movie around them, but the movie is better for having them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most-talked-about scene in the movie is its cold open, where a carelessly-discarded candy bar wrapper leads to catastrophic results. It reminded me a lot of one of those convoluted \u201cFinal Destination\u201d death sequences, but that didn\u2019t do the movie any favors, all it did was make me wish I was watching one of those movies instead of this. I\u2019m sure the intention here was to have a scene where funny and scary were well-balanced, and I suppose technically it succeeds by delivering very little of either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon after, we\u2019re introduced to our new cast. Capable covert operative Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) is recruited by shady pharmaceutical rep Krebs (Rupert Friend) to lead a team to an island of mutant dinosaurs to collect DNA samples that can be combined to form a cure for heart disease. The team also includes Zora\u2019s longtime colleague Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and unemployed paleontologist Dr. Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). As the new leads travel to the island, we\u2019re also introduced to a civilian family: father Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), younger daughter Isabella (Audrina Miranda), older daughter Teresa (Luna Blaise), and Xavier (David Iacano), Teresa\u2019s hapless boyfriend. Their boat is capsized by ocean-based dinos and they need rescuing from Zora\u2019s team, much to the chagrin of mission-focused Krebs. The groups are briefly brought together, then quickly separated again once they reach the island so they can go on disparate adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Said adventures include Zora\u2019s group collecting samples from prehistoric creatures on land, sea, and air. It\u2019s the \u201cair\u201d that proves the most challenging, as they have to scale a perilous cliff to get to the nest of a fearsome predator. The family needs only to survive the island, but they don\u2019t have things any easier. They need to make it down a river, but not if a T-Rex has anything to say about it. For the climax, the survivors of the two groups reunite for a shared showdown with the vicious mutant dinosaur that escaped its enclosure at the beginning of the movie. I at least liked the design of the new Big Bad dinosaur, it\u2019s got more going on than previous built-up surprises that usually just turned out to be variations on raptors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I liked the chemistry of the Johansson\/Ali\/Bailey team in \u201cJurassic World: Rebirth.\u201d I liked them so much, in fact, that I was annoyed whenever there was any business with dinosaurs that prevented them from casually interacting. The sailing family could have been cut from the movie entirely. I know the movie wanted to throw in some cute kids for the dinos to terrorize, but they\u2019re bland, at times annoying, and they detract from the more interesting storyline. As for the dinosaurs and the action around them, it\u2019s par for the course. Don\u2019t worry, they\u2019re here, but the special effects are wonky at times and nothing they do will be surprising to anyone familiar with this franchise. I can\u2019t say that I strongly dislike this installment with its change-up in human leads, but this series, now on its seventh installment, is no longer the unique property that established itself as a pop culture institution in the 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: C<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJurassic World: Rebirth\u201d is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence\/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language and a drug reference. Its running time is 134 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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